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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ipv6_fib limit spinlock hold times for /proc/net/ipv6_route
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 23:31:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140425213140.GE7050@order.stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53592287.2050902@fb.com>

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:41:11AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> I was going to discuss the cache exclusion on a separate thread, but the 
> short version is that I don't have any clue of how many people we'd 
> upset by unconditionally leaving out the cached entries.

In my opinion this would be ok.

We definitely must reduce number of entries in the fib and I don't think it is
wise to synthesize them thereafter, especially if we don't need to track state
at all, e.g. forwarding.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-25 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-24 13:59 [PATCH RFC] ipv6_fib limit spinlock hold times for /proc/net/ipv6_route Chris Mason
2014-04-24 14:20 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-04-24 14:30   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-04-24 14:41   ` Chris Mason
2014-04-25 21:31     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2014-04-26  4:06       ` David Miller
2014-04-24 14:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-04-25 19:53 ` David Miller
2014-04-25 20:09 ` David Miller
2014-04-25 20:27   ` Chris Mason
2014-04-25 21:52     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-04-26  4:11     ` David Miller
2014-04-28 17:21       ` Chris Mason

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